CVE-2020-9819 on CISA KEV

A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, iOS 12.4.7, watchOS 6.2.5, watchOS 5.3.7. Processing a maliciously crafted mail message may lead to heap corruption.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, iOS 12.4.7, watchOS 6.2.5, watchOS 5.3.7. Processing a maliciously crafted mail message may lead to heap corruption.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211168
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211175
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211169
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211176

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	iOS	unspecified
Apple	iOS	1 — unspecified
Apple	watchOS	unspecified
Apple	watchOS	1 — unspecified

06Detection

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